“We just have to thank God nothing serious happened,” he said after a Toyota smashed into him and daughter Christel outside a Morris Park bakery.

The Bedford Park father had the shock of his life Sunday, October 14 when an elderly driver hit the gas instead of the brake as he was backing into a parking space, ramming both before crashing into the front of Enrico’s Pastry.

“The pane of glass fell basically right down on her head,” said Kim Mercado, who rushed from the Chase Bank across the street. “It was not a sight I want to see again.”

“Another inch and it would have been the jugular vein,” said Mercado, who treated the little girl with help from a doctor nearby. “I still got the blood on my clothes.” Christel was taken to Jacobi Hospital, where doctors stiched up her injury.

“I’m thankful it was not much worse,” said Kosta.

The driver, who remained at the scene, was not charged, though Kosta fumed over his clumsiness.

“It’s unbelieveable how someone could drive like that on the sidewalk.”

The crash was the talk of Morris Park the next day as neighbors expressed shock over the accident.